As crews resumed disassembling the Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco, a fire was sparked inside the first piece. According to an SF Park Ranger stationed at the fountain, the weld cutting team accidentally ignited the plastic tubing inside. They quickly extinguished the flame. @nbcbayarea.com

PG&E executives faced some very pointed questions at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors public hearing Thursday. nbcbay.com/FUnaMNv

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday night in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church service earlier this month. nbcbay.com/ZAW5d2Q

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

BREAKING: SFPD says avoid area of Washington and Sansome streets in the Financial District due to police activity. nbcbay.com/l4Rd15Q

#BREAKING: Former Laney College football coach and current athletic director John Beam has died after being shot on the school's Oakland campus, police said. nbcbay.com/offIOWn

#BREAKING: Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously that President Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. nbcbay.com/SZPO2Fa

This is weird for sure. Check out that flight path. The jet fighter, or what sounded like a jet fighter - it flew above the fog so I could not tell what type - passed over Ocean Beach. It's rare to see jet fighters outside of Fleet Week. cc @svqjournalist.bsky.social

With at least two other Bay Area fireworks displays now canceled by the Yolo County tragedy, San Francisco is expecting an even larger crowd for its fireworks: nbcbay.com/GtWLNLo

An immigration judge in San Francisco has just announced in court that the afternoon docket will no longer be in session. Activists outside have announced Immigration Court in Concord have also be suspended for the afternoon.

A coalition of groups has now organized people into marches in front of both entrances to Immigration Court in Downtown San Francisco

#BreakingNews People in San Francisco swooped in on a van ICE Agents used to detain a person who showed up for Immigration Court.

Labor leaders in San Francisco are rallying in support for David Huerta. He’s a Southern California labor leader who was arrested this weekend at ICE raid protests in Los Angeles.

NEW: Federal agents this morning detained at least two people at a San Francisco courthouse and drove them away from the scene in a DHS vehicle. nbcbay.com/rRnUlBf

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is joined by fellow members of Congress to raise concerns about Republican budget proposals to cut what they say is $880 billion to Medicaid/Medicare.

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

City crews are at Lincoln Way and The Great Highway in San Francisco. They’re removing the stop lights and center median. The Upper Great Highway officially closed yesterday. Last year voters approved a plan to turn a portion into an oceanfront park. It was a controversial vote for neighbors here.

Kilauea up early this morning via @Volcanoes_NPS view of the eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera, looking east 3/11/2025

As Tesla’s stock continues to tumble, some people who already own the vehicles, say they are trying to get rid of them in protest of Elon Musk’s position with the Trump Administration. nbcbay.com/MQ8V3PZ

Tesla’s Stock continues to tumble. It’s down sharply today. Some current Tesla owners are trying to distance themselves from Elon Musk over his politics by adding bumper stickers. And some are even selling their Teslas. Does anyone know someone who just sold theirs?

My rideshare driver complaining to me about robo-taxis taking jobs in the same city where rideshare was invented to nearly eliminate the taxi industry…

Twitter/X has experienced 3 outages so far today.

@marymcnamara.bsky.social I sent you a private message.

SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a newly passed “Fentanyl State Of Emergency” legislation that gives him expanded powers to deal with the city’s opioid epidemic.

Two women arrested in the SFPD chase ending in a crash into a Mission Pub Parklet Sunday will be arraigned tomorrow. The SF District Attoeney says Taylor Ross,27 and Eureeka Abrams, 29 face several charges. Ross, who was driving, faces many charges related to the bystanders injured in the crash.

SFPD and SFFD on the scene this chilly morning for a dead body near the corner of 18th Street and Castro. No information on cause of death or ID. Local business employees say the person was unhoused and was unresponsive on the sidewalk. So they called 911.

If you work at a federal agency touched by DOGE, particularly the Education Department — or if you have other information about DOGE that you'd like to share with @nbcnews.com — I'd love to speak with you. I'm on Signal at: tylerkingkadenbc.20 We are good at protecting sources' identities.

San Francisco City Crews are setting up a fentanyl triage center. Mayor Daniel Lurie says people picked up by police for public drug use will be brought here for an assessment by Public Health, an offer of treatment, the possibility of arrest, or a bus ticket out of the city.

SF Dept Of Water crews made quick work of a small sink hole that developed at Gough and Lombard. A crewman says the heavy rain runoff pulled up sediment around a recently repaired high pressure hydrant line. They’re putting a metal plate over it till rain stops and they can make a permanent repair.

Tesla’s dominance in California’s electric vehicle market took a significant blow in 2024.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: “A wake-up call for our American friends .. This is going to be very rough .. Your [auto] plants are going to go down in a week.” @acyn.bsky.social $GM $F

#Update: Dow futures down more than 600 points. Bitcoin has fallen by almost $14,000 per coin since tariffs were announced Friday.

California State Senator Scott Weiner just wrapped up a news conference with Trans Youth, their parents, supporters and city elected leaders to speak out against the President’s series of Executive Orders aimed at gender affirming care and identity.

In a couple weekends Chase Center in San Francisco will be hosting the 2025 NBA All Star game. But the three day event will actually take place across three different sites in the city and in Oakland. It’s expected to pump hundreds of millions of dollars in the city and Bay Area region’s economy

According to the FAA, a military Sikorsky H-60 helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet as it approached Reagan National Airport. The collision was captured by a Kennedy Center observation camera.

San Francisco City and Labor leaders re-affirm the Sanctuary City status after a series of concerning recent incidents including a Tenderloin resident who was detained over the weekend.

In 24 hours, DeepSeek: -Blew up among AI and ChatGPT users. -Hit number one in App Store. -Caused American AI companies to lose hundreds of billions of dollars. -Got hit with “massive cyber attack.”

A series of billboards are going up across San Francisco telling drivers about the city’s new speed cameras that will go online in March. San Francisco is the first city in California to activate speed cameras since they became legal last year.

Ever heard of a “Neck-Down”? It’s a new traffic installation on Kirkham Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District. It’s getting some heated responses from drivers who say it’s potentially dangerous, and from residents who say, it does force drivers to slow down.

Public Works is repaving California Street today between Pierce and Scott streets. Crews have been busy; this week we are completing the work on California Street by repaving the entire roadway between Steiner and Broderick streets.

Hiring freeze ordered at US Dept of Veterans Affairs, which operates dozens of hospitals, 100s of clinics and veterans benefits programs nationwide

BREAKING: Federal district court judge temporarily blocks President Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship. nbcbay.com/kP3qEwn

TikTok has gone offline.

increasingly unclear what the point of Prime is now that the shows all have commercials and shipping has gone from 2-day to "idk maybe next week"

In the wake of the suspected terrorist attack New Years Day in New Orleans, the organizers of San Francisco’s “Downtown First Thursday” event wouldn’t discuss any specifics about security. But we did notice two city dump trucks have been parked at either end of the event on 2nd Street tonight.

UPDATE: Tesla truck explosion at Trump Hotel in Las Vegas is being looked at as a possible terror attack, law enforcement officials tell NBC News. nbcbay.com/PTnMzbH

First Sunrise of 2025. Happy New Year.

Check out the #coyote I spotted in the streets above #Castro in San Francisco. He was taking a New Years Eve stroll through the neighborhood. I’m happy to say all the dog owners in the area also had them in leashes, which is always a good idea with these guys around.

The Russian shadow fleet tanker seized for damaging the Estlink-2 cable in the Baltic Sea had spy equipment for tracking NATO ships and aircrafts installed on it. The hi-tech equipment on board was abnormal for a merchant ship and consumed more power from the ship’s generator, leading to blackouts